New 2014 Ram truck for our TC
I just picked up our new 2014 Ram 3500 truck yesterday. It's a SRW, crewcab, shortbed, 4x4 with a 6.7 Cummins and Aisin transmission. My 2008' Dodge PW, while a great truck, was maxed out weight wise ...
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mena661 wrote:Redsky wrote:What's immature about worrying if the DEF tank hangs down too low?
DEF and the filter reduces soot and other******out the tailpipe by 99%. How is that a bad thing?
If you are rock crawling with a heavy truck with a camper in the bed the low point is going to be the differentials and the shock mounts and with an Allison transmission the external filter is also more exposed than the DEF tank. And there are shields for the DEF tank for the paranoid people who actually go off road and over the rocks.
I read the same sort of comments about catalytic converters in the 1970's. People got over it then and need to stop obsessing about DEF now.
No need to buy a diesel to haul a truck camper in the first place. A gas engine with the right gears will be as effective and save the buyer $10,000 and provide no problems as to where to find diesel being pumped when out in the boonies. No worries about bio-diesel and fuel gelling and water in the fuel other problems unique to diesels.
Modern emissions systems are part of the cost of living in the modern world with other people and sharing the air.
